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153133
  • Title
    Australian Hymn Book Committee further records, ca. 1970-1998, being mainly of the Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee
  • Creator
  • Call number
    MLMSS 8082
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1970-1998
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    153133
  • Physical Description
    1.02 metres of textual material (6 boxes)
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    The Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee included Canon Lawrence Bartlett (Chairman), Professor Wesley Milgate (Executive Editor), Trisha Matthias (Music Editor) and W. R. Murray (executive Secretary). It released a number of reports towards a revised edition of the Australian Hymn Book (1977), reinstating some previously omitted hymns and including new material. The new hymn book, Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II, was published in 1999.

    Reference:
    Compiled from the collection
  • Scope and Content
    BOX 1
    Correspondence mainly between Canon L. F. Bartlett and Wesley Milgate, 1975-1986

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett mainly with Wesley Milgate, 1986-1996

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett, 1993-1997, relating to comments received for Australian Hymn Book reports and revised edition of the Australian Hymn Book

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett mainly relating to responses to proposed revision of the Australian Hymn Book, 1988-1998

    BOX 2
    Reviews, 1977-1996, mainly of the Australian Hymn Book and its companion volumes

    ‘Distribution’, 1977-1979, relating to orders for and distribution of the Australian Hymn Book (1977)

    Correspondence and memoranda of Canon L. F. Bartlett relating to the Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee, including its Executive, 1988-1998

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Collins Publishers [London], Collins Dove (Blackburn, Vic.), Collins Liturgical (London and Australia), 1987

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Collins Publishers [London], Collins Dove (Blackburn, Vic.), Collins Liturgical (London and Australia), 1988-1990

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Collins Dove (Blackburn, Vic) and HarperCollins Religious, 1991-1997

    BOX 3
    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Collins Publishers [London] and Collins Liturgical (London and Australia), 1986

    Correspondence mainly of Canon L. F. Bartlett, 1977-1997, relating to administrative matters and the deposit of Australian Hymn Book Committee records in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales 1978-1997, and including original manuscript of the Hymn Book Report 1994

    ‘Submissions for AHB’, 1993-1997, being correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett relating to submissions received for revision of the Australian Hymn Book

    Copies of minutes of Board of Directors’ Meetings of the Australian Hymn Book Pty Limited, 29 July 1977 - 9 Nov. 1994

    Copies of minutes of the Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee, 16-17 July 1986 - 25-26 Sept. 1997

    BOX 4
    ‘Survey of Hymn Usage. Australian Hymn Book’, 1991, compiled by G. H. Cooney

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett relating to usage survey by G. H. Cooney, 1990-1992

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett mainly with the Reverend Dr B. N. Kaye (General Secretary, The Anglican Church of Australia – General Synod), 1997-1998, regarding the reappointment of Anglican representatives on the Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee

    Copies of minutes of meetings of the Australian Hymn Book Promotion Committee, 1977

    Correspondence and memoranda of Canon L. F. Bartlett relating to the Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee, including its Executive, 1998

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Wesley Milgate (Executive Editor), 1997

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Wesley Milgate (Executive Editor), relating to the publication of Together in Song, 1998, with newscutting article about the origin of Advance Australia Fair, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Jan. 1985

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett with Australian Hymn Book Editorial Committee, 1998, with colour photographs of Committee members

    Correspondence of Canon L. F. Bartlett mainly with Trisha Matthias (Music Editor), 1995-1998

    ‘Newly accepted material for AHB II’, being folder of photocopies of printed music

    BOX 5
    ‘Submissions for Australian Hymn Book 1999’, being envelopes, nos 1-11, including records of the Australian Hymn Book Committee Revision Committee – New Materials Sub-Committee NSW:

    No. 1 - Submissions from C. Louis Fouvy, received by Rev. Jennifer Farrell, 1992-1994
    No. 2 - Photocopy of Thirty New Hymns (1992), text by Michael Foster
    Nos 3 and10 - Brian Black
    No. 4 - Some related hymns by Ian M. Fraser
    No. 5 - ‘1994 NM Rejected’
    Nos 6-11 - NMR [New Material Rejected]

    BOX 6
    Multiple envelopes and loose papers of new materials submitted and rejected, with related minutes of meetings, 1989-1995
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright - This collection has multiple rights owners
    Research & study copies allowed: Applies only to material in which the Australian Hymn Book Committee owns copyright
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